Percussion instruments can be classified as tuned or untuned. Untuned percussion include most hand drums, shakers, and other instruments that produce sounds and effects of undefined pitch. Tuned percussion instruments include xylophones, marimbas, steel pan drums, and other instruments with definite tonal ranges.
The doubloon (from Spanish doblon, doblÃ³n meaning) double was a-two escudo or- 32 real gold; coin weighing.6 867 (grams.0 218 troy) ounces in, 1537 and.6 766 grams from, 1728 .of 92 fine (gold-22 carat). Gold doubloons were minted In, Spain, Mexico, peru And Nueva. granadahe two escudo piece was called a pistole,; the large eight escudo coin was called a quadruple pistole or, at first, a double doubloon. English colonists would come to call it the Spanish doubloon. After the War of 1812, doubloons were valued in Nova Scotia at the rate of Â£4 and became the dominant coin there.
cephalopod. n. 1. (Animals) any marine mollusc of the class Cephalopoda, characterized by well-developed head and eyes and a ring of sucker-bearing tentacles.The group also includes the octopuses, squids, cuttlefish, and pearly nautilus. adj.ny of various carnivorous marine mollusks of the class Cephalopoda, having a large head, a mouth with a chitinous beak surrounded by arms or tentacles, and in most species, an ink sac containing a dark fluid used for defense, and including the octopuses, squids, cuttlefishes, and nautiluses. [From New Latin.